Analysis of William Wallace
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
(For the Ballarat statue of him)
THIS is Scotch William Wallace. It was He
Who in dark hours first raised his face to see:
Who watched the English tyrant Nobles spurn,
Steel-clad, with iron hoofs the Scottish Free:
Who armed and drilled the simple footman Kern,
Yea, bade in blood and rout the proud Knight learn
His Feudalism was dead, and Scotland stand
Dauntless to wait the day of Bannockburn!
O Wallace, peerless lover of thy land,
We need thee still, thy moulding brain and hand!
For us, thy poor, again proud tyrants spurn,
The robber Rich, a yet more hateful band!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 1111010111 10110111111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1100110101 1110111 1101010111 1111110101 1111011101 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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